This exciting
Founder's Program rewards all players who pre-order The Lord of the Rings Online
with special $9.99 monthly subscription pricing, early access to the game (beta
version), character roll-over and unique in-game bonus items. Players can become
a Founder by pre-ordering the title at
www.lotro.com/preorder or at retail stores nationwide beginning February 1,
2007. This limited-time offer is exclusively available to pre-order
customers.

As a beta tester of both games let me say this, the LOTR beta totally pwns the Vanguard beta. LOTR graphics may look dated and lack all the fancy shader effects but the game runs a hell lot better, even before the servers went down for the game's release Vanguard still ran like crap with tons of bugs all over the place.

Despite its limited scope its safe to say that upon release LOTRO will be a much more playable and focused game than Vanguard.